Hmmm, I was unable to get the new iphone SDK from Apple's servers on the weekend, but it was running very quickly on BitTorrent.
Does anyone know if Apple is seeding BitTorrent for the iphone SDK? WoW also uses a BitTorrent derivative for distributing software patches etc. It seems to be very fast if there are a few high speed seeders. Billl On 3/11/08, Victor Grishchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, P2P as a content distribution method is known to be orders of > magnitude cheaper than any "classic" solution. > See the paper "Video Internet: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the > U.S. Peering Ecosystem" by P.B. Norton of Equinix > http://www.blogg.ch/uploads/Internet-Video-Next-Wave-of-Disruption-v1.2.pdf > > Still, it is an open question whether costs are actually saved or just > shifted to ISPs :) > I think, P2P traffic localization techniques may actually save costs, on > obvious reasons. > > > Saw this on /. a couple days back and noticed that the peer efficiency > > being reported by Bittorrent in this study is upwards of 96%. Not bad! > > Does anyone read Norwegian, and can they determine what the (harmonic) > > average download speed was for S3 versus Bittorrent? > >> "An experiment was conducted recently by Norwegian broadcasting > >> company ... 41,000 NOK ... 1,700 NOK. > > -- > > Victor > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > -- Bill McCormick _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
